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Miz walked back with two cups of hot coffee in his hand and a bottle of Jazz brand whiskey in his pocket.

"Ha, I found a 24-hour convenience store on the corner in front of me! He happily opened the door and came in, and his mouth kept puffing white steam. Cairo has an absolute desert climate, with an astonishing temperature difference between day and night, and all we need now is hot drinks and blankets.

He sensed that I was thinking hard and immediately shut up, raised his binoculars and looked into the villa.

If Lorraine is okay here, I'll contact Charlotte at dawn to see if I can get a chance to pay you a visit. Keeping Lorraine's line will definitely bring a lot of convenience in future event exhibitions, after all, she is a bird-level soothsayer, even if she is in a state of "the authorities are confused", who knows if she will suddenly awaken and understand everything?

The line of the hostess Sarah, the madman Age, and the golden oil painting can only be dug up after Lorraine has passed the last big time. Since Miz didn't believe his nonsense, most people must have only taken it as a joke, and in a sense, Edge was in a relatively safe situation, not worrying about being killed.

Miz lit another cigarette, gently grabbed a headset on the bridge, leaned it to his lips, and whispered, "Is there a situation?"

I couldn't hear the other person's reply, but I could understand that it was Mitz's eyeliner. The same plainclothes police officers sent by ZF who came to protect Lorraine were from the same system as Mitz, and of course they were obliged to share information.

Now, the last wall lamp in Lorraine's room was turned off, only the LCD cipher of the safe reflected a ring of green light, which looked like a phosphorescent ghost fire from a distance.

Miz looked back and let out a long sigh of relief: "It's okay tonight, the inside report is that Lorraine has entered the safe to rest." As is customary, she will come out to the office at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. ”

I observed that it was an "Arasu" brand safe from Israel, with very precise temperature, humidity and oxygen control, and its external armor could withstand the close-range strafing of assault rifles, which was widely used by oil barons during times of tension in the Arab region.

Lorraine is very good at using modern technology, and with the escort of this big cabinet, ordinary external forces cannot hurt her.

Miz drank too much tonight, and once he relaxed, he fell asleep on the steering wheel after only a few minutes.

The painting was always flat on my lap, so I kept my head resounding with what Sen had said. There is one of the most important fallacies in that narrative, since Age claimed that he had entered the "sea of gold" and returned safely, how could no one pay for him to take him in search of treasure?

The only explanation is that he can't find a way back to the "Sea of Gold" again. In the endless desert, even if there are carefully placed road signs, people often get lost and die, let alone move forward with only one person's vague memory?

"And what if you find Edge, just listen to him tell a fantastical story?" I yawned and lay on my side in my seat, ready to close my eyes for a moment.

"Bai Xiao Xie is missing, Bai Li should know, right? Why are the Snake King's men and horses still standing still? Na Lun is here to lift the curse in Su Kan, and what is the purpose of capturing Bai Xiao Xie? It is not enough to say that Bai Xiao Xie has something to do with lifting the curse?" "I think of the causes and consequences of the Snake King's death, if Bai Xiao Xie knew something, he would have contributed to help the Snake King a long time ago, instead of allowing the former to die willingly.

I was so sleepy that I fell into a half-asleep state, and after a while, I opened my eyes and immediately flipped my wrist to see that the glow-in-the-dark hand pointed to half past four in the morning, which was the darkest time before dawn.

Miz's snoring was loud and low, muffling out everything around her.

"He's not fit for round-the-clock surveillance—" I smiled wryly as I picked up my binoculars and looked at Lorraine's residence. This time is the fixed position of the "dormant" indication of the human biological clock, so the figures and footsteps on the lawn are gone, and only the cold wind can be heard swaying the acacia trees.

"I hope Charlotte can generously dedicate the 'Cursed Stone', and as for "Wheel of the Sun", a thorough investigation of the Moonlight Hotel should be able to find important clues. It's a pity that he can't let Lao Ban take action in person, if he can perform the 'Mercury Injection Nine Springs Tracking Dafa' in Room 1808, he will definitely not have to go through so many twists and turns. ”

My mind kept flashing over one character after another, and finally froze on Leng Xin. After being in Egypt for such a long time, not only did he not make progress on the disappearance case, but he was haunted by more and more strange things, and he could not get rid of it for a while.

A terrible wolf howl broke through the air, and the night was dispersed in an instant.

Wolves are always in the desert, and when there is no food to eat, they venture into the city to feed. Miz's snoring stopped, but he was not awakened by the wolf howl, but snorted a few times and continued to fall asleep.

With a sense of foreboding, I aimed the lens of the telescope at the safe, then adjusted the focus to slowly pull the glowing green code disc closer. The green light flickered a dozen times, and suddenly turned red, and the door of the safe immediately popped open silently, and Lorraine appeared in the doorway.

She looked cautiously to the left and right, cowered and tiptoed to the window, looking up at the sky in a daze.

There were no stars or moons in the sky, only a cold and silent dusk, and I guess she couldn't see anything during the five minutes of watching. With a "whoosh", she opened the window and jumped over the windowsill, and her skills were also light and agile.

There was no record of "Lorraine is proficient in martial arts" in the previous information, so I was slightly surprised: "Where is she going? Why don't you go through the door of the hall and cross the window in the middle of the night?" At this moment, she was only wearing thin pajamas, which could not withstand the cold of dawn at all.

My hand pressed on the door handle to increase the infrared penetration of the telescope, always chasing Lorraine's shadow.

Two bodyguards flashed out of the darkness and joined forces in front of Lorraine, like two towers cutting off my view. I couldn't hear the conversation between them, but the bodyguard's intention was clearly to persuade her to go back into the room. Suddenly, a bodyguard fell backwards, and his companion reached out and pulled out his gun, but a slender hand with five fingers appeared on his side of the neck, like a sharp machete, slashing him to the ground.

Lorraine showed these two tricks, sophisticated, and powerful enough to rank among the great experts in hand-to-hand combat. She strode past the two bodyguards, walked to a Mercedes sedan parked on the right side of the villa, and without hesitation, pulled the door open and slipped in.

This series of changes came extremely suddenly, and before I could wake up, the Meez Benz had already moved two snow-bright lampposts to illuminate the seven or eight big men rushing towards me. The group didn't realize that Lorraine's bizarre behavior was happening for a reason, but they were just blocking the way of the car as usual.

I slapped Miz the shoulder to wake him up from his slumber: "Look what's going on—"

Miz looked up in confusion and saw the Mercedes rush forward whizzing forward, knocking the bodyguard standing in front of him out, and then getting out of the wheels and crashing against the ground with a strange sound rushed towards the fence door of the villa.

I yelled, "Get out of the way, I'll drive!" and immediately rushed forward, squeezing Mez into the passenger seat and moving the car as fast as I could.

Mercedes went very fast and our car turned onto the road when it was already two blocks away.

Miz wiped two handfuls on his face fiercely, dispelled the heavy sleepiness, grabbed the headset again, and asked repeatedly, "What did you give birth to?"

No one answered his "ahh The Mercedes-Benz is a weighted style, with a high inertia at start, and the inertia at the start is extraordinary, and a few bodyguards who were hit are probably more than lucky.

I pressed the accelerator to the bottom, and the car made a terrible noise, and the distance between the car and the Mercedes gradually narrowed to 100 meters. According to the route, it is heading in the direction of the Giza Heights, which is more or less expected by me. Lorraine had said that her near-death site was at the top of a pyramid, and now she was running frantically towards it, presumably at the call of some mysterious force.

"Can you notify the police control center to send a barricade team to intercept it?" I raised my voice to the limit so that I wouldn't be drowned out by the noise.

Miz looked at his watch and waved his hand helplessly: "It's impossible that the barricade team is not a mobile unit that operates around the clock, and it will be too late for everything by the time they are assembled." "He's right, the pace of action of the Egyptian police here is at least twice as slow as that of the big European and American countries, and there is no obligation to go out in the middle of the night to fight for their lives.

I slapped my hands on the horn to vent my frustration with the police, but it had nothing to do with Mitz, because in African countries, rich and poor, reforms have been fruitless.

The two cars had been speeding for more than twenty minutes, and the spire of the Great Pyramid was already in sight.

Miz exclaimed in confusion, "Hey, where is she going? Is it the Great Pyramid? What is she going to do?"

I frowned and said nothing, trying to explain to him what Lorraine had said, not in a moment, but just wasting time in vain, simply not saying anything, just focusing all my strength on the accelerator pedal, hoping to increase the power of this car by a factor of twenty.

As Lorraine's car turned onto the road leading to the Great Pyramid, I felt a lot more relaxed, and as long as she was in our field of vision, there was nothing to worry about. If this is where she died, we'll at least have time to send men around the pyramid and do a carpet search to find the horrors.

Miz held the binoculars and tried to maintain the stability of his hands with the tremors of the car, and suddenly let out a cheer: "She stopped, she stopped-" The cheers were not over, and there was a sudden "bang" under our car, and then the steering wheel was several times heavier, and no matter how much the steering wheel was twisted, the car just rushed diagonally to the left by itself.

A flat tire at high driving is the most dangerous thing, but fortunately, in the desert, even a severe series of rollovers is not life-threatening. I slammed on the brakes continuously, and the car slid sideways towards the dunes, rolling up the ground and flying sand, and finally staggered to a stop.

I immediately got out of the car and prepared to continue the tracking with my own light skills.

"Mr. Chen, wait a minute, give you the weapon!" Mitz stumbled out of the car, and was hit by the windshield on his forehead, blood gurgling along the sides of his nose, but he didn't care at all, opened the passenger seat, and pulled out an American assault rifle with a folded butt.

Above our heads, there was a cacophony of vultures, flapping as the wings of the birds scrambled.

Miz suddenly raised his head and whispered, "Look at those eagles - how can Mr. Chen have thousands of vultures flying together?" He stiffened his hands as he handed me the gun.

Lorraine once described her deathbed with a large flock of vultures hovering in the air, just waiting to swoop down and peck at her. I took a long breath, grabbed my rifle, grabbed the two magazines under my seat before Miz bent over, quickly inserted them into my pocket, and turned to run towards the pyramid.

"Mr. Chen, be careful, I'll immediately mobilize people to come over for reinforcements!" Mitz said in a panicked tone, and had no intention of continuing to follow. That's fine, with his skills, if he encounters danger, he will inevitably have to be distracted and taken care of, so it is better for me to chase it alone.

The sky was turning white, but the eagles were gathering on the top of the pyramid like a large pot lid.

I rushed to the vicinity of the Mercedes Benz, where Lorraine had abandoned the car and went to the tower. Her light skills are quite skillful, her arms flutter sharply, and her toes rise about a meter on the rough tower.

The engine of the Mercedes Benz was not turned off, and the two headlights emitted bright beams of light, pointing in the direction of the entrance.

None of the security guards of the pyramid management office showed up, presumably their duty was only to guard the entrance, and if anything came out of the tower, let it go.

I peeked into the car and saw how clean the two rows of seats were. Lorraine ran out in her pajamas, naturally without a phone, weapons, or anything like that, so why did she rush here? There was a comprehensive data display on the bridge of the car, and it was now five and ten in the morning, about twelve hours away from her own prediction.

"Could it be that she has a new divination result?" I said, full of confusion, and chased after her.

This is the second time I've been on the pyramid at night, and the last time I've encountered interception by the Rainbow Warriors and the peep of the Tang Gate in Shuzhong. This time, out of the corner of my eye, I kept an eye out of the uneven dark corners of the tower, always on the lookout for other characters.

"Woo-" Lorraine let out a strange long howl in front of her, like some beast calling to her own kind. I was keenly aware that the place where she had stopped was the same place where Tang Mei and I had fallen last time.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind: "Is the strange cave the entrance to the mysterious world under the pyramid? The wind in the big corridor, the Leng Xin and the snake-like body that Wang Shi has seen all enter and exit from here?"

I paused slightly, and my spirits were lifted, and I chased after a while, invisible in the shadows of the stones, and pointed my gun at Lorraine. The wind from the tower swept the hems of her pajamas and the hems of her trousers, but her feet were firmly nailed to the boulder, and they were cast of steel and iron.

The eagles staggered back and forth, and the target was Lorraine, who stood proudly. However, on the surface, she seems to be alive and well, and there is no sign of near-death at all.

"Quark Cankanas,......" she said, clasping her palms together and facing east, chanting the six-syllable phrase in succession. When she repeated it for more than twenty times, her eyes suddenly lit up, like a meteor crossing the sky on a winter night. At the same time, a meteor flew down in the distant sky due east.

Lorraine's arms were raised high, kneeling down to the east, and bowing to the ground.

"Is it a coincidence, or is it some kind of strange feeling between man and the universe?" the handle of the gun in my palm was already hot, but looking at the situation at the scene, there were no targets worth shooting.

After about thirty years, Lorraine still did not get up, still lying quietly on the ground.

The sky had lit up, and I saw that her trouser legs were half-curled up to her knees by the wind, and her bare feet were bloodied by the rough stones, but she was motionless, her arms bent and she lifted her up at a forty-five degree angle with all her might—"She's dead?" I was just about to stand up, and four or five people had leapt over the other side of the tower and landed beside Lorraine.

"Hey, how's it going?" one of them leaned over and slapped Lorraine on the shoulder, the rest of them looking around warily with their flat-ended submachine guns.

"Damn, she's dead!" the man stood up, tore off his black mask, revealing his black face after camouflage grease, and then felt for a cigarette and a lighter to ignite.

"Search to see if she has a map or a password key or something?" another person reminded.

The man laughed lewdly: "Search, how search, she's not much better in her pajamas than naked." If you have a map, you can't take it with you at the National Museum. ”

He grabbed Lorraine's arm and made her roll upward, shaking her head in frustration: "Another trip in vain - the chief told me that I must find the deep hole that can open and close on its own, but I don't have any clues?

From their conversations and weaponry, I could tell that the other party belonged to the soldiers in the Rainbow Warriors, and it seemed that the Egyptian military had not given up on exploring the secrets of the pyramids.

The death of the first soldier had not yet attracted the attention of his companions, and some were even laughing loudly: "Jemas, get up, don't do anything to the dead!" Their laughter did not last long, some screamed on their backs to the ground, others roared angrily, swooped and rolled down, and within a minute all five people were dead, and none of them survived.

Just beneath my feet, something small, poisonous squirmed in droves, forming a black-pressed encirclement around the boulder of Lorraine's death. It was the cruelest gift from heaven to the African desert – the black-backed scorpion, a terrifying killer capable of killing people in four seconds.

I used the "turtle breath gong" to hold my breath, and the surface of my body was still like a rock, and I successfully avoided the attack of poisonous scorpions.

On the other side of the tower, the howls of dozens of people were heard intermittently, but they only lasted less than five minutes before falling silent again. Although the Rainbow Warriors are strong, their emergency survival kits do not contain elixir to treat scorpion venom, and being stung can only lead to death.

"Did Lorraine also die from a poisonous scorpion?" I doubted. As a bird-level great soothsayer, she would never have seen such a biased ending.

A gentle and quiet bamboo whistle sounded, and a girl in white slowly walked up to the stone platform, kicked away the soldier's corpse, and stared at Lorraine, who was facing the sky. At her whistle, the poisonous scorpion came out of the poisonous tail and shook its "clacking", and then retreated as quickly as the tide receded.

It is a relationship with me, white from black, reflecting white clothes, and even more beautiful. Who would have thought that she was the daughter of Thailand's "Snake King" when people who didn't know the details saw her?

Calculated carefully, the Bai family belongs to a branch of the Five Poisons Sect in Yunnan, China. When the snake king went back three generations, he was not surnamed Bai, but because the leader of the Five Poisons at that time was a Bai person, they called themselves surnamed Bai after they were exiled to Thailand, and finally achieved a good situation of "driving the five poisons and being invincible" in a foreign country.

"Mr. Chen, the matter is over, please come out and see each other, okay?" Bai Li's voice was also as crisp as the wind blowing bamboo, and he was polite, which was completely different from the unruly and indifferent Bai Xiaoxie.

I walked up to the stone platform, not daring to greet her, and leaned down to examine Lorraine's face carefully. Her eyes were closed serenely, her face as calm as if she were asleep, but when I examined her breathing and pulsation, there was no sign of life.

"She died, but it wasn't the work of the scorpion, and the cause of death is not apparent for the time being. Mr. Chen, Sister Tang will come later, and with her experience in the rivers and lakes, she will probably be able to have further appearance-" She suddenly realized that she had said the wrong thing, and immediately smiled apologetically: "No, Mr. Chen, I don't mean that Sister Tang is at a higher level than yours, it's just that the Tang Sect in Shuzhong has been famous in the rivers and lakes for hundreds of years for 'treacherous killing in the invisible', and is an absolute expert in this area." ”

Whether she apologizes or not, and I won't be dismayed by other people's words, but Lorraine's death is a great frustration for me.

Mezzy and I watched her for the middle of the night, but spent the last few dozen minutes watching her run to her death. This result is really shameful.

One hundred and fifty years ago, Xiahou Feiyang, the leader of the martial arts alliance who was invincible all his life, once taught his younger generations before his death: "The water of the rivers and lakes will never be bottomless. Don't think that you have been broken, frustrated, and submerged, and then stand proudly at the head of the tide again, and be complacent and claim to be the old rivers and lakes. The complexity and profundity of the rivers and lakes are always beyond the limits of people's thinking, and those who are complacent will surely lose their footing. ”

This passage is the motto of many predecessors and masters of black and white, and it is an unbreakable truth.

Mitz is a self-proclaimed veteran of the police world, and I always thought that as long as I put the subject under my control, there would be no problem, but now I have finally been frustrated.

I slowly got up and took out the phone and called Miz: "Lorraine is dead, but don't call an ambulance or reinforcements just yet, I feel like things are turning around." ”

The sixth sense tells me that a great soothsayer must have stirred up some kind of mysterious power before he died. According to the "law of conservation of energy" in applied physics, energy can only be converted organically and will not be dissipated suddenly. From the understanding of the "Wheatton Spiritual Power Theory" in the alien art world, all spiritual power masters with ordinary magic will not dissipate their spiritual power for a certain period of time after death, but a slow passing process.

For a simple example, a cigarette can only emit smoke for five minutes, while a powerful smoke bomb can emit intense smoke for up to twenty minutes. Now Lorraine is supposed to be a passively extinguished smoke bomb that must be able to tell me something.

As I ascended the platform, I repeatedly observed the terrain around me, guessing where the "snake monsters" Lorraine had spoken of would come from. The sky was already bright, and in my eyes, the stones that had stood through the wind and rain for 10,000 years were stacked on top of each other, and there were no obvious cavern gaps.

"Mr. Chen?" Bai Li smiled gently, not annoying my anxiety and indifference at all.

I noticed my gaffe and immediately smiled back: "I'm sorry, I'm with a police friend, I have to inform him of the situation first." The spectacular situation where Miss Bai Li drove the scorpion formation just now should really be filmed and sent to the 'National Geographic Magazine' in the United States for preservation. ”

Bai Li smiled at the morning breeze: "What's that? Compared to the magical legend of Mr. Chen's life, everything in the Bai family is just a small skill of carving insects." Father said that Mr. Chen's martial arts, wisdom, and opportunities are all first-class in the world, and neither I nor Bai Xiaoxie are as good as yours in 1/10,000. ”

At the mention of Bai Xiaoxie, there was suddenly an indescribable shadow in her eyes, but in an instant, she smiled again and explained: "The Snake King disciple went to Cairo to help Sister Tang. Father said that Bai Xiaoxie has three 'anti-bones' growing in the back of his head, and as long as he dies, Bai Xiaoxie will definitely show wolf ambitions. Therefore, the main goal of this operation is to get rid of this hidden danger. Now that he has finally fallen into the hands of the Indians, I would like to thank Mr. Chen for his help. ”